Resist voter list manipulation, Inu tells Bheramara meeting

Election Commission officials in districts, at the behest of ruling parties, have appointed party men in voter enrolment and they are making the voter lists as per their will. Fake voters and being listed while minority community people are being avoided in many areas, he alleged while addressing a public meeting at Bheramara High School ground on Friday.

They are manipulating the voter lists sensing that people will vote them no more, he said and urged the people to build a movement so that they can not hold a "mock election" and perpetuate power.

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He said there is not reason for the people in power to believe that they will be able to cling to power forever. People will reject this government in the next election, if it is held in a free and fair manner, he said.

This government protects fundamentalist forces, who are blasting bombs and killing pro-liberation forces to create a law and order situation in the country to help BNP-Jamaat cling to power through conspiracy, the JSD president alleged.

to Isamist militant outfits JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen, Bangladesh) and JMJB (Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh) have been created under the protection of ruling parties, he claimed. Opposition parties earlier warned the government time and again about activities of JMB and JMJM but they did not care, he said.

He alleged that a partner in the ruling coalition created the militant Islamist outfits and are protecting them now. Bomb blasts aand killings in the name of Islam will not stop so long the Jamaat-e-Islami will remain in the ruling coalition, Inu said.

"Jamaat is behind Islamist militancy. Most of the arrested militants confessed to police that they were Jamaat-Shibir activists", he said.

"Once BNP led Jamaat but soon Jamaat will lead BNP", he said.

Inu claimed that the government wanted to liquidate the 14-party alliance. Failing to do so, it is now manipulating the voter list.

"People are now conscious and they will resist any move to prepare a fake voter list and hold a farcical election," the JSD leader said.

"Nab enumerators who manipulates voter list and handed them over to law enforcers", Inu told the meeting.

Inu bitterly criticised killing of four sugarcane farmers in Daulatpur on December 28.

"The BNP-Jamaat failed to control price of essentials. They killed innocent farmers for producing molasses from sugarcane grown on their fields".

The JSD leader called upon the people to intensify the on-going anti-government agitation and unite under the banner of 14-party alliance to oust the "failed" government.

With Bheramara upazila JSD President Nabir Uddin the chair, the meting was addressed by, among others, JSD central general secretary Syed Jafar Sazzad, Joint Secretary Shirin Akther, Karim Sikdar, Kushtia JSD President Sahabub Ali, General SAbdul Alim Sawpan, Emdadaul Hqa Ata, Golam Mohsin, Arati Nandi and Asit Kumar Shingho Roy.